The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 3, sentence 72
This was the moment the youth was waiting for, and he swung his mighty sword in the air with all his strength and the witch’s head fell off, and her blood spurted up on the walls.
Who acts: This, youth, last, head, blood · What happens: be, wait, swing, fall off, spurt up · To what, where: moment, mighty sword, air, walls
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, youth, last, head), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 moment | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 moment | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 moment | det |
| 4 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 youth | det |
| 6 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 waiting | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 waiting | aux |
| 8 | waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 moment | acl:relcl |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 waiting | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 swung | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 swung | cc |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 swung | nsubj |
| 13 | swung | swing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 moment | parataxis |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 sword | nmod:poss |
| 15 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 sword | amod |
| 16 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 swung | obj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 air | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 air | det |
| 19 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 swung | obl |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 strength | case |
| 21 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 strength | det:predet |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 strength | nmod:poss |
| 23 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 swung | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 fell | cc |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 witch | det |
| 26 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 head | nmod:poss |
| 27 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 26 witch | case |
| 28 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 fell | nsubj |
| 29 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 swung | conj |
| 30 | off | off | ADV | _ | 29 fell | advmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 spurted | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 spurted | cc |
| 33 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 blood | nmod:poss |
| 34 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 spurted | nsubj |
| 35 | spurted | spurt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 swung | conj |
| 36 | up | up | ADP | _ | 35 spurted | compound:prt |
| 37 | on | on | ADP | _ | 39 walls | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 walls | det |
| 39 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 spurted | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 moment | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | This | the moment | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | wait | past · progressive | the youth | the moment not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | swing | past | last | last's mighty sword | the air | with last's strength | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme in air=Location | ||
| 4 | fall off | past | the witch's head | off property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 5 | spurt up | participle | drop's blood | the walls | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme on wall=Destination |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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